Scott Adams
17 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 26, 2019 by Scott Adams · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Nov 26, 2019
Scott Adams Uses Social Media Critics to Practice Testing Counterarguments
“I literally use them for practice because if somebody makes a certain kind of criticism, I can often count on other people in the future making a similar one. So I see if I can shut it down with a comment. I see if there's some fact that would change the mind.”
Nov 26, 2019
Nov 26, 2019 negative
Scott Adams Says Most Online Criticism Comes From Misunderstanding His Opinions
“And one thing that they almost all have in common is that they're based on a misrepresentation or a misunderstanding of my opinion. It's actually very rare for somebody to criticize my opinion as accurately understood.”
Nov 26, 2019 negative
Nov 26, 2019
Scott Adams: Undisciplined Thinkers Judge Reality Against Imagined Perfection
“What you find when people are undisciplined into thinking, and you see this wildly on social media, is that people will judge a thing without comparing it to anything, except their imagined perfect state. But usually the other alternative is nothing like a per…”
Nov 26, 2019
Scott Adams: The Simplest Explanation Usually Comes From the Least Informed
“Well, I think what you'll find out is that the person who has the simplest explanation is almost always the least informed. Which is a problem. Because the part of what makes you think your explanation is right and simple is that you don't know the nuance of t…”
Nov 26, 2019 neutral
Scott Adams: Evaluating Presidential Performance is Impossible Without Counterfactuals
“The only way you could know if a president did a good or bad job, I mean, short of, you know, being treasonous or something ridiculous that's obvious on its face, but you really couldn't tell If a Democrat had been elected, if the economy would be doing even b…”
Nov 26, 2019
Scott Adams: Citing Historical Consensus Failures Shakes People's False Certainty
“So, if you point out how many times experts all agreed, and then were all wrong, you can start working on somebody's confidence, and at least introduce the idea That the majority doesn't mean they're right, and that there are plenty of times in history that th…”
Nov 26, 2019
Scott Adams: Phrasing Disagreements as Questions Helps People Expose Their Errors
“Technique number two is to put your disagreement in the form of questions as opposed to statements whenever you can. So you might say to somebody, what would it look like if your idea played out for the next 10 years? And get them to actually explain what the …”
Nov 26, 2019
Scott Adams: 20% of People Experience Extraordinary Hypnotic Phenomena
“Something like 20% of the public can have extraordinary phenomena, as we call it. Hypnotists use that word phenomena, and it means that you can see or feel things that aren't actually there. The rest of the people, the 80%, can also be influenced or hypnotized…”
Nov 26, 2019 negative
Nov 26, 2019
Nov 26, 2019
Scott Adams: Humans Make Decisions Irrationally and Rationalize Them Afterward
“Hypnotists turn it around, and they say, no, we are rationalizers. We are people who make decisions for reasons we don't understand, and then we explain them to ourselves after the fact, so that we are rationalizing irrational species who can be rational 10% o…”
Nov 26, 2019 positive
Scott Adams: Combining Complementary Abilities Into a Skill Stack Drives Success
“That was the big change, is that I combined my business skills, my MBA, my degree in economics, with the art, and it was those, that combination, I call it a skill stack, when you put together skills that are complementary, and that's really what made the diff…”
Nov 26, 2019 positive
Nov 26, 2019
Scott Adams: Artists Rely on Ego While Businesses Listen to Customers
“If you go to business school, rule number one is that you have to listen to the customer and you have to give them what they want. But that's the basic, you know, thing that a business person will do. That's kind of the opposite of what an artist normally does…”
Nov 26, 2019
Scott Adams: Asking Critics to Name Disagreements Dismantles Straw Man Arguments
“So that's the question I've been testing online, and it's really effective, because what I've noticed is that virtually everybody who seems to be disagreeing with me online is actually disagreeing with a misinterpretation of my opinion. And so when I ask peopl…”